NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Conference on Mexican Immigration

George Borjas, Organizer

February 11 and 12, 2005

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM DAVID CARD, UC, Berkeley and NBER

ETHAN LEWIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts

Discussant: GEORGE JOHNSON, University of Michigan

9:30 AM FRANCINE BLAU, Cornell University and NBER

LAWRENCE KAHN, Cornell University

Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

Discussant: JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico

Discussant: DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM GEORGE BORJAS and LAWRENCE KATZ, Harvard University and NBER

The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

Discussant: JEFFREY GROGGER, University of Chicago and NBER

2:00 PM EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER

The Slow Assimilation of Mexicans in the United States

Discussant: CHARLES BROWN, University of Michigan and NBER

3:00 PM Break

3:30 PM ROBERT FAIRLIE, UC, Santa Cruz

CHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego

Mexican Entrepreneurship:

A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Discussant: DAVID NEUMARK, Public Policy Institute of California and NBER

4:30 PM SUSAN RICHTER and J. EDWARD TAYLOR, UC, Davis

ANTONIO YUNEZ-NAUDE, El Colegio de Mexico

Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration from Rural Mexico to the United States

Discussant: DAVID JAEGER, College of William and Mary

5:30 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Group Dinner

Legal Sea Foods at Kendall Square

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM KURT UNGER, CIDE

Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

Discussant: CHINHUI JUHN, University of Houston and NBER

9:30 AM PABLO IBARRARAN, Inter-American Development Bank

DARREN LUBOTSKY, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection:

New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census

Discussant: CORDELIA REIMERS, Hunter College - CUNY

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM BRIAN DUNCAN, University of Colorado at Denver

STEPHEN TREJO, University of Texas at Austin

Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Discussant: HARRY HOLZER, Georgetown University

12:00 PM Lunch and Adjourn

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